Stanley R. Sloan is a Visiting Scholar in Political Science at Middlebury College, Vermont and a Senior Fellow in the Scowcroft Center at the Atlantic Council of the United States

Foreword by Lawrence Freedman

Part I: Cold War alliance
1 The transatlantic bargain and defense of the West
2 Genesis of the bargain
3 The transatlantic bargain revised
4 The bargain through the Cold War, 1954-1989
5 The United States and Europe at the end of the Cold War: some fundamental factors

Part II: Post-Cold War alliance
6 The 1990s: transitions and challenges
7 The 2000s: turbulent transatlantic ties
8 The 2010s: new tasks, new traumas

Part III: Defense of the West
9 External threats and internal challenges
10 Can the West survive?

Appendix 1: The North Atlantic Treaty: Washington D.C. - April 4, 1949
Appendix 2: Active Engagement, Modern Defence, NATO Strategic Concept, November 20, 2010

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